VS Code & nrfjprog (nRF Connect SDK) problem on Linux

RE: VS Code & nrfjprog (nRF Connect SDK) problem on Linux

EdAtm021 — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 04:42:03 GMT

[quote userid="120040" url="~/f/nordic-q-a/89642/vs-code-nrfjprog-nrf-connect-sdk-problem-on-linux/390680"]Hey... have you tried downgrading to Command Line Tools 10.17? [/quote]

That worked for me, but I have to install J-Link Software and Documentation Pack also. Thanks.

RE: VS Code & nrfjprog (nRF Connect SDK) problem on Linux

EdAtm021 — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 04:38:55 GMT

[quote userid="7377" url="~/f/nordic-q-a/89642/vs-code-nrfjprog-nrf-connect-sdk-problem-on-linux/390358"]

Hi,

Did you install the J-Link Software and Documentation Pack well as nRF Command Line Tools?

(The reference to dll is a bit odd but not an issue, and this comes from SEGGER. I is obviously not a DLL on Linux, but they call their shared library files DLL on all platforms for some reason.)

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Yeah, that not solve my problem.

RE: VS Code & nrfjprog (nRF Connect SDK) problem on Linux

EdAtm021 — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 04:17:59 GMT

Yeah, "dpkg -i" was my first choice for install, but the problem was the same, apt is may second try.
About the "nm -D" command, the symbol not exists,I also tried ldd command and everything seems to be ok, but some function is calling it, I just try to run "nrfjprog --version", but thanks for the help, I will try reinstall or downgrade.

RE: VS Code & nrfjprog (nRF Connect SDK) problem on Linux

Account01 — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 14:08:00 GMT

Hey... have you tried downgrading to Command Line Tools 10.17?

RE: VS Code & nrfjprog (nRF Connect SDK) problem on Linux

Account01 — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 15:22:50 GMT

I know this is a small difference, but have you tried installing the package with "dpkg -i" instead of "apt install"? Maybe some odd repo dependency is interfering, although that would be an oddity.

Also, have you run "nm -D" to check that the function symbol actually exists:

$ nm -D /opt/nrf-command-line-tools/lib/libnrfjprogdll.so | grep read_cpu_arch
000000000020ed50 T NRFJPROG_read_cpu_architecture_inst

Hope you figure this out!

RE: VS Code & nrfjprog (nRF Connect SDK) problem on Linux

Einar Thorsrud — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 07:09:05 GMT

Hi,

Did you install the J-Link Software and Documentation Pack well as nRF Command Line Tools?

(The reference to dll is a bit odd but not an issue, and this comes from SEGGER. I is obviously not a DLL on Linux, but they call their shared library files DLL on all platforms for some reason.)

RE: VS Code & nrfjprog (nRF Connect SDK) problem on Linux

EdAtm021 — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 03:26:28 GMT

Same issue here, running in x86_64 Ubuntu 20.04. That's not a PATH issue, I have two paths to nrfjprog in my PATH, neither works. And I have installed the last version using 'apt install ./nrf-command-line-tools_10.18.0_amd64.deb', To me, it seems like the build for nrf-command-line-tools_10.18.0_amd64.deb is broken, if we run nrfjprog the output is an error, trying to execute a dll, it's very strange seeing that under UNIX universe, I expected a shared-object or shared-library, not a dll.

RE: VS Code & nrfjprog (nRF Connect SDK) problem on Linux

Account01 — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 20:34:20 GMT

I may have found the answer.
VS Code may HAVE FOUND nrfjprog, but it tried running --version flag in order to determine the version number, and it caused the following to appear in its input buffer:

[error]: [SeggerBackend] - Error in dlopen: libjlinkarm.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[error]: [SeggerBackend] - Dll failed to open.
ERROR: JLinkARM DLL load failed. Try again. If it keeps failing, please
ERROR: reinstall latest JLinkARM from Segger webpage.

This causes it to return an error that assumed that nrfjprog wasn't installed in $PATH, which is the default assumption. Actually it was missing a shared object library that needed to be installed, which made it malfunction.

My solution was to download and install Segger's JLink package, and then I ran:

"sudo dpkg -i JLink_Linux_*Version*_*platform*.deb"

...and that seemed to make VS Code (or the nRF plugin) happy.

RE: VS Code & nrfjprog (nRF Connect SDK) problem on Linux

Account01 — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 18:31:28 GMT

Sure. I'm running x86_64 Ubuntu 20.04, and my PATH shows as:

/home/*user*/bin:/home/*user*/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:/home/*user*/go/bin

When I run "which nrfjprog" without setting environment variables, it returns, "/usr/local/bin/nrfjprog"

RE: VS Code & nrfjprog (nRF Connect SDK) problem on Linux

Einar Thorsrud — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 07:42:28 GMT

Which platform are you using? If you use the latest nRF Command Line Tools you should automatically get it in your path, as a symlink should be created in /usr/local/bin/, an din that case there is no need to add it to your path in any other way (assuming /usr/local/bin is in the path from before, which it should normally always be).

If this does not work, can you show what you PATH looks like without any additional configuration, and also let me know which Linux distro you are using?

RE: VS Code & nrfjprog (nRF Connect SDK) problem on Linux

Account01 — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 20:11:45 GMT

I'm encountering something similar...
I have tried both using "PATH" (I set PATH=$PATH:/opt/nrf-command-line-tools/bin before executing code.) and specifying "/opt/nrf-command-line-tools/bin" when specifying toolchain.

1: Using PATH (with the toolchain already in the PATH env variable) will give "nrfjprog is required" error
2: Using "/opt/nrf-command-line-tools/bin" it will give an "Invalid Toolchain Installation." without an explanation.
3: If I run the tools from the command line, they will execute as expected.

RE: VS Code & nrfjprog (nRF Connect SDK) problem on Linux

Einar Thorsrud — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 07:24:17 GMT

Have you added it (/opt/nrf-command-line-tools/bin/) to your path? You can check with echo $PATH, or simply see if typing nrfjprog in your terminal works. If it does not, you need to add it. Exactly how depend a bit on which shell and Linux distro you are using (not sure about Pardus).

RE: VS Code & nrfjprog (nRF Connect SDK) problem on Linux

salihonur — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 19:45:18 GMT

Hi Einar,

I already installed via nrf-command-line-tools_10.16.0_amd64.deb package.And also tried *.rpm too. nrfjprog is already located in /opt/nrf-command-line-tools/bin/ and it is executable.

RE: VS Code & nrfjprog (nRF Connect SDK) problem on Linux

Einar Thorsrud — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 11:23:47 GMT

Hi,

Looking at the error it seems the issue is that nrfjprog is not in the path. Have you installed nRF Command Line Tools and ensured that you have nrfjprog in your path? This must be done separately even if you use the toolchain manager.